long time no see

"Come here often?" she asked, leaning perilously on the bar and lurching herself in your direction.

Here are a few observations of late:

1. Did you know there are frogs that can live through the winter, frozen solid? It's true!

2. I was reading the New Yorker on the train the other day (which is where I learned about the frozen frogs) and the guy sitting next to me was reading the exact same magazine, one page ahead of me. I very much wanted to tap him on the leg and ask "does it get better on the next page?" but I didn't. Because I don't really want to grow up and be a crazy cat lady.

3. What's a good word? "Dummie." Not used enough in life.

4. My friend has a date with a guy who works at a company called Littler. It's pronounced "Lit-Ler," not "Little-er" but that doesn't really change the fact that the guy's last name is Weiner. (and no, it's not pronounced "whiner")

5. I saw a girl on the sidewalk the other day wearing a shirt that said, "I'm not with Stupid anymore." I punched her in the head and took it.

6. Ok, maybe not.

7. I ran into a mini-setback recently and called a friend, announcing myself as the Department of the Bummed. She called back the next day to, as she said, "calibrate her bummerometer."